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Akash Srivastava

I hail from a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India. Passionate about building scalable and sustainable software solutions, competitive programming, and football(Barça Fan).

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Major Projects

Following are my research projects that I have done during summer internships and some additional projects that are carried out as course or hobbie project during semesters.

Key Research Projects

Key Research Projects

Major Course Projects

Major Course Projects

  • AKA-shell :
    A naive implementation of LINUX shell in C. It demonstrates how a shell works i.e. read, parse, fork, exec and wait. Built-in commands includes cd, help, exit, hist. Project was done as part of Operating System course, under Prof. J.P. Singh, NIT Patna.

  • Timex- A chrome extension :
    It keeps track of surfing time, when extension is accessed time spent along with random quote is displayed. Project was done as part of Web Technology course, under Prof. Kumar Abhishek, NIT Patna.

Major Course Projects

Side Projects

  • Tweete (Twitter Handler) :
    Tweete is a desktop application designed in JAVA that provides interface to interact with Twitter account using Twitter4j API. Presently, Tweete has three features: Update Status, Send Direct Messages and Retrieve Previous Tweets.

  • pyBuzz :
    A python script that sends weather forecast summary along with word of the day to mobile phone on system startup. Dependencies includes BeautifulSoup, Twilio, Urllib and Forecastio.

  • Shut-it-Down :
    A desktop application that automates the scheduling of system shutdown (Windows Users). Designed using JAVA Swing and implemented using System Calls.

  • File Encryption and Decryption using cipher class :
    A console based Encryption and Decryption application developed in JAVA. This project was done during Summer Training at Hewlett-Packard (HP) nodal center, India, 2014.